A rowdy boy almost made her quit teaching. Then he became her son

BATON ROUGE, LA — Fourth-grader Jerome Robinson was the bane of his young teacher’s career.
“At certain points, his behavior got so bad,” Chelsea Haley said, “I thought, ‘I can’t do this anymore. I can’t be a teacher.'”
Haley joined Teach for America to make a difference in a low-income school. She did not expect to encounter a tough boy like Jerome. She definitely did not plan on adopting him and his little brother.
“I never thought I&